{"id":11581,"date":"2017-06-26T21:04:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11581"},"modified":"2017-06-26T21:04:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:04:58","slug":"would-a-heat-resistant-cow-mean-better-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/06\/would-a-heat-resistant-cow-mean-better-beef\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Would a &#8220;Heat-Resistant&#8221; Cow Mean Better Beef?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Food and Wine<\/em> magazine had an interesting article this week on efforts by University of Florida scientists to produce a cow that is more resistant to hot conditions by crossing Angus with Brahman breeds.\u00a0 According to the article ,&#8221;the new &#8220;heat-resistant&#8221; cow would be able to better handle heat stress, they say, and because of that, their meat would be of better quality than our current cows.&#8221;\u00a0 Who knows, it might even taste better.\u00a0 You can read more about it here.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3757\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/ona-white-angus-070615.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3757\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/ona-white-angus-070615-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/ona-white-angus-070615-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/ona-white-angus-070615-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/ona-white-angus-070615.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: University of Florida<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food and Wine magazine had an interesting article this week on efforts by University of Florida scientists to produce a cow that is more resistant to hot conditions by crossing Angus with Brahman breeds.\u00a0 According to the article ,&#8221;the new &#8220;heat-resistant&#8221; cow would be able to better handle heat stress, they say, and because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11582,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581\/revisions\/11582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}